PRE-GAME RANT

Missed the last game vs. the Coyotes, as I’m sure many of you did since it was PPV and Team Canada was on. However, we are currently 1-9-1 in the last 11. The Blue Jackets are 1-8-2 in that same time frame (1-13-2 in their last 16.. wow.. thought we had it bad), so it should be the battle of the titans tonight.

Steve-O and I will be heading to the game tonight courtesy of free tickets I won from work.. yay! Anyways, I sure as hell hope they win so I can at least enjoy being at the game. I’ve had some rotten luck there this year, like many others. Both the heart and brain are predicting a win tonight though.

Columbus Blue Jackets Projected Line-Up (subject to change)

TEAM COMPARISON

STATS

44

GP

43

15

W

16

20

L

22

9

OT

5

39

P

37

0.443

P%

0.43

2.57

G/G

2.67

3.23

GA/G

3.23

20.6

PP%

18.3

81.2

PK%

76.3

30.5

S/G

28.2

30.3

SA/G

31.8

50.9

FO%

46.9

GAME NOTES

– Steve Staios, Ryan Stone and Jean-Francois Jacques were absent from Wednesday’s practice. Staios was nursing an injury. According to Quinn he “got wacked last night and today he went to be medically checked”. I think that’s 1920’s old man talk for “he blocked a shot and got hit on the inside of the knee” (per Tencer’s twitter, live during the game.. 1 of 10 people watching Tuesday night). Jacques has a wrist injury, but Quinn says that’s not why he was scratched on Tuesday. Stone’s injury is a minory knee injury. He had the day off for precautionary reasons. Staios is questionable for Thursday.
– Nilsson also took a stick in the eye on practice Wednesday, but seems to be OK.
– The good news is, Visnovsky could be ready as early as tomorrow. So if Staios is out, Visnovsky may be in, if he’s good to go. But if it’s not tomorrow, sounds like it could be soon. Quinn said he had a good skate on Wednesday morning.
– According to Tencer and the Oilers twitter, Dubnyk gets the start tonight.

First Period Summary

Team

Goals

Shots

Edmonton

1

8

Columbus

1

15

Goals

16:40 Columbus. RJ Umberger (Huselius,Nash)

16:59 Edmonton. Pisani (unassisted)

Notes

Missed most of the first…

1 penalty to O’Sully.

Pisani scores first goal of the season.

Second Period Summary

Team

Goals

Shots

Edmonton

0

12

Columbus

1

8

Goals

18:43 Columbus. Vermette (Torres, Voracek)

Notes

Souray hit the crossbar.

Oilers with a brief 2 man adavantage. (zip, zero, nada…)

Late goal by the Jackets…

Third Period Summary

Team

Goals

Shots

Edmonton

1

6

Columbus

2

6

Goals

01:36 Edmonton. Ganger (Grebeshkov, Stone)

03:36 Columbus. Huselius PP (Umberger)

11:21 Columbus. Hejda (Pahlsson, Roy)

Notes

Oilers tie it up with an early goal by Gagner.

Columbus responds minutes later with a PP goal. Courtesy of Staios for interference

Stone called for holding.

Shortly after killing the penalty, Columbus score to go up by 2.

Late PP opportunity for the Oil. Few shots, no goals

Even later PP (35 secs to go) after some more energetic play. No goal…

not that it’s going to happen, but I actually don’t hate this trade, as long as they don’t stop there.

Fehr is a BIG bodied(6’4 212lbs)versatile winger with huge offensive upside that is putting up decent numbers despite limited icetime in Washington. He lead the WHL in scoring his final year of junior, so you know he’s got decent hands for a big guy.

Plus Theodore comes in and relieves the pressure from JDD, and his contract comes off the books in the offseason for some much needed cap relief.

plus a prospect(twatwaffle says Stefan Della Rovere) who is a young version of Tootoo and was just on team Canada in the WJH.

Plus TWO picks.

so, this trade essentially clears up like 5 million in cap space this offseason, gives us a starting goaltender for the remainder of the season so Khabi can have his surgery, adds some size and grit up front, plus two picks to add to the rebuild, I think it’s a no brainer, I’d do it.

yes we give up Souray, yes everyone loves Souray, including me, but the more I think of it, if this team does a rebuild, I honestly don’t want any of our current leadership core in the dressing room, this team needs a culture change, we can sign some UFA vets in the offseason to come mentor the kids.

gr8one:
not that it’s going to happen, but I actually don’t hate this trade, as long as they don’t stop there.Fehr is a BIG bodied(6′4 212lbs)versatile winger with huge offensive upside that is putting up decent numbers despite limited icetime in Washington. He lead the WHL in scoring his final year of junior, so you know he’s got decent hands for a big guy.Plus Theodore comes in and relieves the pressure from JDD, and his contract comes off the books in the offseason for some much needed cap relief.plus a prospect(twatwaffle says Stefan Della Rovere) who is a young version of Tootoo and was just on team Canada in the WJH.Plus TWO picks.so, this trade essentially clears up like 5 million in cap space this offseason, gives us a starting goaltender for the remainder of the season so Khabi can have his surgery, adds some size and grit up front, plus two picks to add to the rebuild, I think it’s a no brainer, I’d do it.yes we give up Souray, yes everyone loves Souray, including me, but the more I think of it, if this team does a rebuild, I honestly don’t want any of our current leadership core in the dressing room, this team needs a culture change, we can sign some UFA vets in the offseason to come mentor the kids.

Yah.. mixed feelings on that. Sounds like a pretty awesome trade (although again, the source makes this almost not worth my time to debate, but I’m bored at work). We get a lot of value in return. I liked what I saw from Della Rovere for one. I also like the sounds of Eric Fehr. And draft picks too?? Excellent. As for Theodore.. limited faith in him. However, if he stinks up the joint, he helps the DFF (drive for five) cause anyways. So that’s the good..

The bad.. Souray going. Our defense is weak as is. They’d have to address this immediately in another trade. Also, in regards to the culture change… I can’t speak to it, myself, but Souray strikes me as a guy that wouldn’t be a bad apple on a team like some of the other vets almost make me wonder about. I would have no problems going through the culture change with him still on the team. I think the way he carries himself in interviews he seems like the kind of guy who is a good team guy, but is honest with himself, his team and the fans. So I’m in no rush to move him for any reason. But that deal would definitely be very tempting.

I had a hunch that if Souray did go on the market then the Caps would be one of the teams calling. He would fit in great on the Caps and Souray would be to them what Gonchar is to the Pens. I would trade Souray and Cogs for Theodore Fher and the Caps first round pick and 2nd round pick(even their 2nd pick in a future draft).

I would do that in a heartbeat. I was always a huge fan of Fehr, and this trade would address our biggest needs, goaltending this season and prospects/picks for rebuilding. Plus Fehr is also from Winkler, Manitoba

Caps would probably send another dman back too, so they get another offensive dman instead of just Green

MetalOil: I had a hunch that if Souray did go on the market then the Caps would be one of the teams calling. He would fit in great on the Caps and Souray would be to them what Gonchar is to the Pens. I would trade Souray and Cogs for Theodore Fher and the Caps first round pick and 2nd round pick(even their 2nd pick in a future draft).
Could you imagine a PP with Ov, Green & Souray!! Getter done Stevie

Horpensky:
I would do that in a heartbeat. I was always a huge fan of Fehr, and this trade would address our biggest needs, goaltending this season and prospects/picks for rebuilding. Plus Fehr is also from Winkler, Manitoba
Caps would probably send another dman back too, so they get another offensive dman instead of just Green

Wonder if they’d do that package but add in one of our skill guys / Shaone Morrisson

Of course, speculation is fun and all, but since this is an Eklund Twatwaffle rumor, I don’t believe it will happen.

geezus, what the hell do they feed their kids there? are they all behemoth freaks of nature?

Shaone Morrison is another capital that would look great with the Oilers, big physical shut down D.

though, honestly, the Caps already pulled off a fairly significant trade(losing their captain) I really can’t see them fucking too much more with team chemistry considering how well they’ve played this year.

Just getter done so we can start clearing up some cap space and get even more depth for a much needed youth movement!!!
I won’t deny that it would be a great PP to watch come playoff time if the Caps did land Souray and they would be my fav eastern team come playoff time.(I think I will be going with the Kings in the west).

gr8one:
isn’t that where Penner is from too?geezus, what the hell do they feed their kids there? are they all behemoth freaks of nature?

Yeah Penner’s from the too it’s gotta be something in the water or maybe they fight bears in the winter to bulk up. What else do you do in rural Manitoba?

I don’t see that deal happening simply because it’d really hurt the Caps cap situation. They’ve got Backstrom as an RFA this season and Varlamov is a RFA after 10/11 while Semin and Laich are UFAs. Adding another 5.4 to the mix might make keeping the core a pretty tough thing to do and that core is already pretty good.

Well this is either going to be an incredibly dull game because both teams are struggling and will have equal levels of suck, or it’s going to be an incredibly exciting game because both teams are struggling and will battle to prove which team sucks less.

Glad to see Dubnyk get another start, hope it goes better for him this time.

I haven’t been able to watch yet, but from the stats I’m seeing, we’re getting outshot badly by a bottom feeding team… Dang, looks like I missed something of interest. Goal off a faceoff post goal I’m guessing.

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